Jane Austen Quotes
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Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.
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Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
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I think it's very easy to get caught up and think that how many hits you get in a magazine because you were seen out somewhere has anything to do with a director's opinion of you, and whether they could use you or not.
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Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.
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Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
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Can I, just one time, play the good guy?
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I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see that there were certain social forces over which the individual had very little control.
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I love when a director shows up with a lot of energy, and different ideas about how to change things and do it a different way. Once you get into series, sometimes you don't have that, so I certainly don't take that for granted when I get it.
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I want to be like a sunflower; so that even on the darkest days I will stand tall and find the sunlight.
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It's certainly a major thoroughfare across the United States, and to have it disrupted is not good news for commerce.
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The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
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I am fascinated by quantum physics.
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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I have yet to figure out whether it is I am that am crazy, or the world.
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The state is a means to an end. Its end lies in the preservation and advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogenous creatures.
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Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in the testament, as they feared to advocate suffrage fifty years ago. Now they are quarreling as to which were among the first to advocate it. You see they are not used to abuse as I am. In Albany, fifty years ago, when I went before the legislature to plead for a married woman's right to her own property, the women whom I met in society crossed the street rather than speak to me.
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In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.
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This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.
